Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An opening, such as a hole, gap, or slit.
- n. A usually adjustable opening in an optical instrument, such as a camera or telescope, that limits the amount of light passing through a lens or onto a mirror.
- n. The diameter of such an opening, often expressed as an f-number.
- n. The diameter of the objective of a telescope.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of opening out or unfolding.
- n. An opening; a hole, orifice, gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage or perforation; any direct way for ingress or egress.
- n. In geometry, the space between two intersecting right lines.
- n. In optics, the diameter of the exposed part of the object-glass in a telescope or other optical instrument. The aperture of a microscope is often expressed in degrees; and in this case it is called the angular aperture, that is, the angular breadth of the pencil of light which the instrument transmits from the object or point viewed: as, a microscope of 100° aperture.
Wiktionary
- n. An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall.
- n. optics Something which restricts the diameter of the light path through one plane in an optical system.
- n. astronomy, photography The diameter of the aperture (in the sense above) which restricts the width of the light path through the whole system. For a telescope, this is the diameter of the objective lens. e.g. a telescope may have a 100 cm aperture.
- n. communication The (typically) large-diameter antenna used for receiving and transmitting radio frequency energy containing the data used in communication satellites, especially in the geostationary belt. For a comsat, this is typically a large reflective dish antenna; sometimes called an array.
- n. mathematics, rare The maximum angle between the two generatrices.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete The act of opening.
- n. An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole.
- n. (Opt.) The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a device that controls amount of light admitted
- n. an man-made opening; usually small
- n. a natural opening in something
Etymologies
- Latin apertūra ("opening"), from apertus, past participle of aperīre ("to open, uncover"), opposed to operīre ("to close, cover"). See aperient. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Latin apertūra, from apertus, past participle of aperīre, to open; see wer-4 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“In retailing the size of the aperture is often used to provide shoppers with clues about what is in a store.”
“If in the walls surrounding this cavity a small aperture is made through which radiation issues, we obtain a radiation which is independent of the nature of the emitting body, and is wholly determined by the temperature.”
“The aperture is 20 ft. wide, and is still widening.”
“Josh: Well, we basically just looked up various words for different meanings and came up with the word aperture, which means an opening through which light is emitted.”
“I was reading through a section of my post from yesterday this afternoon and noticed that I called aperture apenture.”
“a part of this stream of air, on each side of the edge of the aperture is perpetually stopped by that edge; and thus”
“The aperture is a window, and it seems to me that we’re hoping for a door; a way to Be in Being that is more involved, engaged, and shadow-throwing than mere picture-taking.”
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“The optical sleight of hand used by the astronomers combined the telescope's "adaptive optics" with a technique called aperture mask interferometry: using a a deformable mirror to rapidly correct for atmospheric distortions to starlight.”
The Guardian: New planet, the youngest ever found, is revealed by cosmic trick photography
“All round this aperture, which is the mouth, imagine that there are placed a number of feelers forming a circle.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘aperture’.
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Visuals
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Beer and Brewing
Words about beer and the making of it.
airlock, bung, carboy, diversol, hops, mashtun, beer, sparge, trub, wort, malt, malt liquor and 184 more...
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mete, ire, bane, bilk, boor, elan, ado, toil, onus, aberration, abstruse, anomaly and 401 more...
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abhor, mirth, obtuse, iota, vex, irk, teem, pith, moot, mete, ire, bane and 401 more...
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aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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bane, bilk, boor, elan, ado, toil, onus, aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august and 401 more...
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Palynology
List of terms used in the study and classification of pollen and spores - both fossil and modern.
tetrad, abporal, ectoaperture, lacuna, grain, spore, lophate, acalymmate, monad, polyad, hexad, calymmate and 513 more...
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TECH - digital photography
AD converter, AE lock, AF assist lamp, AF servo, aliasing, anti-shake, aperture, aperture priority, artifact, aspect ratio, auto bracketing, autofocus and 106 more...
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Thresholds
we are all just passing through.
(boundaries, portals and liminal spaces/times)cockcrow, interface, thin line, portal, postern, littoral, interstice, port, membrane, skin, crepuscule, dawn and 304 more...
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Steampunk
Words used quite often in steampunk
ansible, airship, chymical, valve, clockwork, dirigible, thaumaturgy, copper, bronze, difference engine, gear, rivets and 516 more...
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of Montreal
Every time I finally decipher Kevin Barnes's song lyrics, I feel somewhat smarter.
These are strange/big/obscure words and phrases from the lyrics of the band 'of Montreal' (intentiona...southern hemisphe..., paradigm, Phaidon Press, permutation, List Christie, Gemini Tactics, eluardian, persecution complex, Himmlers, parabola, Mono Club, subconscious mass... and 132 more...
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H.Incandenza's list
kertwang, converge, lynchism, utilitarianism, hornswoggle, abide, omniscience, unctuous, sanctimonious, vespertine, vicarious, sic and 4 more...
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Out
Words that connote making an exit, places to exit, means to an exit.
exit, way out, exeunt, outfall, opening, débouché, outlet, egress, vent, porthole, loophole, port and 49 more...
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Kalli's Words
redundant, munchkin, escapade, natch, boom, fap, geek, nocturnal, pedantic, tactile, conversant, oxymoron and 188 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, A
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Tweets
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senwick I remember this word because a hole can be called a Portal, and the portal gun is made by Aperture Science. Jul 8, 2009
djsalinger There's a photography magazine called this.
It's got pictures in it. May 25, 2009